Improvising Quotes - Page 4

• While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

  Shelley Berman

  Smile, Break Up, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

  Pete Fountain

  Reading, Thinking, Play

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• In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished

  Tori Amos

  Fall, Creating, Keys

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• I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

  Robert Englund

  Feet, Want, Enthusiasm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk.

  John Cassavetes

  Writing, Differences, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

  Ikue Mori

  Momentum

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• When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

  James Franco

  Toes, Tvs, Cameras

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Real, Keys

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• There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Believe, Second Chance, Violin

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• When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

  Colin Mochrie

  Trust, Guarantees In Life, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

  John C. Reilly

  Feet, Mind, Relief

  "Interview: John C. Reilly talks Cyrus, torrid romance, and musicals". Interview with Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. June 29, 2010.

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• THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Girl, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.5, Hayes Barton Press

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• Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Running, Coward, Looks

  Jonathan Stroud (2009). “Heroes of the Valley”, p.171, Random House

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• Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Music, Landscape, Jazz

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• I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'

  Novak Djokovic

  Kids, Mirrors, Tennis

  "Visualizing greatness: How Novak Djokovic rose to the top" by Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.

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• We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Knowing, People, Effort

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• There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

  John Schlesinger

  Actors, Certain, Very Good

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• My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

  John Zorn

  Together, Get Up, Solo

  "Interview hits dissonant chord with John Zorn" by Lee Hildebrand, www.sfgate.com. August 26, 2010.

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• When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're trying to fill up the spaces. So they always go towards, "How come you're late?! You're supposed to have my shirt ready! You call this a dry cleaner?!" That's what happens. That's why improvising on the spot gets very dicey.

  Albert Brooks

  Quiet Moments, Space, People

  "Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER, Improvising, Future Projects, Where’s the DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Blu-ray & Turning Down Roles". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

  Mose Allison

  Piano

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

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• I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious about anything, you can't control what anyone else is going to do. The best stuff comes out of moments of inspiration that spontaneously happen.

  Scot Armstrong

  Inspiration, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

  Gunther Schuller

  Symphony, Style, Musician

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• First of all, you're improvising through a puppet, so you're not always yourself: you're a cow or you're a pig or you're an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you're a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that's what you get to be in the scene.

  Brian Henson

  Pigs, Puppets, Cows

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.

  John Dieterich

  Ideas, Band, Fluid

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you're not just you in your body.

  Brian Henson

  Thinking, Body, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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